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>> This passport may say Josef Pwag on it, but it belongs to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, when he would have been 12 to 14 years old. Reuters exclusively reporting that he and his late father, Kim Jong-il, used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas so they could visit Western countries in the 1990s.

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That's according to five senior western European security sources who say facial recognition technology confirmed that these never before published photographs were of Kim Jong-un and his father. Both ten year passports carry a stamp saying Embassy of Brazil in Prague, issued February 1996. And the security sources say they may have been used to travel to Brazil, Hong Kong, and Japan.

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In 2011, a Japanese newspaper reported that Kim Jong-un visited Tokyo as a child, using a Brazilian passport in 1991, before the issue date on this passport. North Korea has made repeated threats to attack Japan with nuclear weapons for more than a decade and conducted dozens of missile launches last year, most of which fell in the Sea of Japan.

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Tokyo held its first missile evacuation drill last month, in the event of a North Korean missile strike. One security source telling Reuters the passports show not only a desire for travel, but could also point to the ruling family's attempts to build a possible escape route. Both passports list their birthplaces as Sao Paolo, Brazil's Foreign Ministry said it's investigating.